IaMD Defiant Biographies

For those who are curious, here's the
complete text I created for the Archer/Hoshi on-screen bios. Some of
the text on-screen was taken directly from the Star Trek.com bios on
the characters; this is the stuff I made up.

Son of famed warp specialist Henry Archer, Jonathan Archer was
appointed captain of Starfleet’s first warp five starship, Enterprise
NX-01. As an explorer and peacemaker, his name is among the most
recognized in the Federation, and his pioneering voyages aboard the
Enterprise are known to school children on dozens of worlds, many of
which were unknown to humans in Archer’s lifetime. Historian John Gill
called Archer the “greatest explorer of the 22nd Century.” Archer
earned an impressive list of commendations during his career, including
a Medal of Valor, with clusters, the Star Cross, the Preantares Ribbon
of Commendation, and the Federation Citation of Honor. Archer was also
appointed an honorary member of the Andorian Guard by General Thy’lek
Shran in 2164. He’s the only human to have two planets named in his
honor: Archer’s Planet in the Gamma Trianguli sector, and Archer IV,
which orbits 61 Ursae Majoris. Archer IV was the first M-Class world
charted by the famous explorer. Although the planet was uninhabitable
throughout the 22nd Century due to toxic pollen in the atmosphere, an
antidote to the pollen was discovered early in the 2200’s. Today, the
population of Archer IV numbers more than seven hundred million.

When I wrote this, I assumed the text wouldn't be legible (silly me).
There are probably some errors in here. One I can spot -- Archer took
command of Enterprise in 2151, not 2150. Some of this text would seem
to be contradicted by the finale (which obviously had not been written
yet). The name Sally, unless I'm mistaken, is also the name of Scott
Bakula's mother.

Moreover, there was a final section of text that didn't actually appear on screen:

Archer
died peacefully in his home in upstate New York in the year 2245,
exactly one day after attending the christening ceremony of the first
Federation Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701.

Yeah, he would've been old, but pretty close to McCoy's age in "Encounter at Farpoint."

Hoshi Sato served as translator, and protocol and communications
officer on Starfleet’s first warp five starship, Enterprise NX-01. Born
in Kyoto, Japan on July 9th, 2129, she was the second child in a family
of three. After leaving Starfleet in her late thirties, Sato created
the linguacode translation matrix, which is still in use aboard
Federation starships today.

Since the dialogue stated that the file contained info on Hoshi's
marriage and death, I created a final paragraph -- it's worth noting
that this was NOT shown on-screen:

Tragically,
Hoshi and her family were among the four thousand people who died on
Tarsus Four in 2246 when a food shortage caused by an exotic fungus
threatened the colony’s population. Governor Kodos ordered the deaths
of Sato and the others in order to save the rest of the colony. She was
buried in Kyoto with her husband, Takashi Kimura.

I
wouldn't really consider any of this "hard canon," so take it all with
a grain of salt. Both bios were slapped together hastily and weren't
approved by the exec producers. Some trivia -- the name of Hoshi's
"husband" was cobbled together from actors in some favorite Japanese
films -- Hoshi and Linda Park share the same birthday.

Tim Gaskill and I discuss this some more on the podcast at startrek.com.